Retire

Famous quotes containing the word retire:

“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire from sight and afterwards return again.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

“A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)